Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Understanding' and 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

20977

Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21003

Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

10364

Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]